Overview
In this role you will design and govern mainframe hardware infrastructure to meet security, resilience, and operational goals. You will work closely with product owners to shape roadmaps and ensure scalable, observable infrastructure. You’ll lead the development of self-service infrastructure and automation, driving improvements through data, feedback, and modern engineering practices. This is a chance to influence how the bank delivers reliable mainframe services at scale and contribute to enterprise–grade solutions.
Responsibilities
- Take a lead role in designing and engineering intuitive self-service infrastructure products
- Collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of team products
- Support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, feature requests and production issues
- Develop and deliver infrastructure as code solutions
- Apply design thinking with users to improve the product
- Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
- Coordinate with key vendors to deliver infrastructure services and technology for the product
- Contribute to selecting, creating and maintaining technologies to meet customer needs and architecture outcomes
Key requirements
- Mainframe Infrastructure support experience
- Mainframe hardware configuration and automation scripting (Python or Shell)
- Experience with infrastructure as code tooling
- Strong Agile experience and ability to define Release Train vision
- Experience in designing/configuring Mainframe hardware (DASD, SAN/FICON) and network infra
- Experience planning hardware migrations between IBM z mainframes
- Knowledge of GDPS architectures/operations incl. processor management, DASD replication and DR automation
- Technical leadership and SME experience
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines with modern tooling
- Experience with testing practices and observability tools; ability to use data and user feedback to improve solutions
- Experience with on-premise data centres
- collaboration
- continuous learning
- leadership
- Mainframe hardware configuration
- DASD
- SAN/FICON connectivity
Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer in London employer: NatWest Group
As a Principal Engineer in Economic Crime Services, you will thrive in a dynamic and innovative work culture that prioritises customer experience and engineering excellence. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through opportunities for senior stakeholder engagement and leadership development, all while working in a hybrid environment that promotes flexibility and collaboration. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to tackling economic crime with cutting-edge technology and solutions.
